I thought the rights of next to kin were pretty generally recognized.
Joel Send a noteboard - 13/01/2011 09:54:39 PM
If you start a fight in a bar and break someone's arm it is criminal because you've just committed a trespass against an individual. A corpse is not an individual. It WAS an individual, but it's just a big sack of meat and bones that is slowly decomposing.
There is no criminal charge corresponding to intentional infliction of emotional distress in most situations (one exception is menacing).
There is no criminal charge corresponding to intentional infliction of emotional distress in most situations (one exception is menacing).
Hence they can do things like claim the deceased personal effects and inherit their property. It seems odd to think the coroner commits a crime if he swipes Aunt Tillys TV when he comes to collect her, but not if he slips her something just as stiff as she it.
You're the lawyer, not I, so I'm not going to presume to say I know your profession better, but, whether or not that's the way it is, it doesn't seem the way it SHOULD be. Of course, you know as well as I that how things should be is a lot less relevant to the law than most people probably think it is.
Honorbound and honored to be Bonded to Mahtaliel Sedai
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Some legal questions.
- 12/01/2011 06:16:23 PM
780 Views
Yes to both
- 12/01/2011 06:31:14 PM
535 Views
No and depends
- 12/01/2011 06:44:02 PM
527 Views
Re: No and depends
- 12/01/2011 07:01:35 PM
474 Views
Re: No and depends
- 13/01/2011 10:08:15 AM
482 Views
No and yes, because of the issue of consent.
- 12/01/2011 07:11:31 PM
457 Views
Only people can provide consent. Corpses are not people, just rotting meat. *NM*
- 12/01/2011 08:40:02 PM
206 Views
I suppose that's fair, but I wouldn't try selling it to the family.
- 12/01/2011 08:56:30 PM
483 Views
You're confusing two separate issues.
- 12/01/2011 09:01:55 PM
485 Views
I think the trauma to the familys could (and probably should) be considered criminal as well.
- 12/01/2011 09:07:57 PM
454 Views
How? Why?
- 12/01/2011 09:40:32 PM
490 Views
I thought the rights of next to kin were pretty generally recognized.
- 13/01/2011 09:54:39 PM
440 Views
And I certainly don't think consensual incest should brand someone a sexual predator for life.
- 12/01/2011 07:20:32 PM
526 Views
Some personal opinions in the form of answers.
- 12/01/2011 08:37:25 PM
513 Views
Re: Some personal opinions in the form of answers.
- 12/01/2011 11:01:50 PM
461 Views
no to both
- 12/01/2011 09:43:28 PM
478 Views
I'm afraid I'm struggling to see what your actual argument is.
- 12/01/2011 11:14:29 PM
474 Views
My argument is that society has the right to say some things are just wrong
- 13/01/2011 12:12:01 AM
473 Views